Help with a new phone? (£20ish a month?)

Stewy

Stewy

Stewy

Soldato
Joined
16 Feb 2009
Posts
16,078
Location
:)
*pokes head in*

Never really posted in the mobile section before but my contract runs out in about a week and I'm sort of overwhelmed by the number of phones and contracts around.

Wanting a phone that will be approximately no more than £20 a month which as far as my brief research suggests doesn't actually get you a great phone any more?

I quite fancy an HTC thing although I don't really know much about phones; I've got an LG cookie at the moment which, despite looking pretty at the time, is actually a pretty pants phone.

Any help / input / suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Ta, Stew.
 
You'll get a decent phone for that, don't worry.

What length contract do you want? Any reason you want a HTC, or have you just heard they are good? Is £20 the absolute max or would you pay £25-30 if the contract was, say, half the duration (so it works out cheaper overall and finishes sooner).

What are the most important things you use your phone for, in order of importance?
 
The Motorola Atrix can be had on that site for £20 pm with 300 mins, texts n Unltd data which seems an absolutely cracking deal to me.
 
Hey guys sorry for the slow mo reply:

300 mins-ish and about 1000sh texts is what I need.

The shorter the contract the better but anything shorter than 18 months seems to get ridonculously expensive comparatively?

Erm in terms of what I actually want, I'm not really sure, probably:
  • Ease of use
  • internet access
  • apps
  • gaming (in apps?)
  • durable
  • (pretty?)

also, not bothered by what network unless you would suggest avoiding certain ones?

as for my HTC-related comment, I don't really know anything about them just heard that they're quite good?
 
Last edited:
Discounting the iPhone on account of price, the best phone currently out is the Samsung Galaxy S II. It is available on various cheap deals. That is what you want to aim for.

Go here and click on the Talkmobile tab, there is a 12 month deal with £120 upfront for the phone and then £30 per month. Talkmobile are basically Vodafone so you'll be fine with them. That also includes 400 mins + 1000 texts + 1GB data, which is plenty. Not considering cashback, this is the overall best deal (I believe).

If you don't want to pay anything upfront, there are plenty of 24 month deals with £30-60 for the phone and £20/21 per month, or a free phone and £25 per month.
 
Last edited:
As you don't sound like you are particularly into modding software and such, which is one of the main plus points of going for an Android device (which is what the Galaxy S is) you should definitely go and look at a Samsung Omnia 7. It may not be the fastest or the newest but it has a superb OS and doesn't need any faster hardware to take advantage of the software. It's also amongst the prettiest IMO both hardware and software wise.

My probably will be able to get it for around £20 a month now.
 
Looking like this Galaxy thing then - £99 up front with £25 per month looking like the cheapest thus far?

Found an iPgone 3GS for £21.50 a month which seems quite attractive to me as my housemate already has one and thus a plethora of music and apps / games.
 
The most important question should be...what is your current contract/what was its length and are you happy with the service you recieved? Background checks before you put the art of negotiating to use! who by the way was your last contract with?
 
StewartMG said:
Looking like this Galaxy thing then - £99 up front with £25 per month looking like the cheapest thus far?

Found an iPgone 3GS for £21.50 a month which seems quite attractive to me as my housemate already has one and thus a plethora of music and apps / games.
Click to expand...

The iPhone would be the best option for you but don't get a 3GS. The iPhone 5 will be out in approx. the next 60 days and that will drive the price of the iPhone 4 down (though not by an awful lot), which is FAR better than the 3GS.

As you're apparently not too fussed about these things (so you're not going to want to upgrade all the time, etc), you could just get a 16GB iPhone 4. You'll be looking at a free phone and then £35 per month or perhaps £30, I've not looked recently.

Mobiles.co.uk have some decent iPhone 4 deals, you can get it for £30/month with a free phone - http://www.mobiles.co.uk/three-apple-iphone-4-16gb-black.html - have a look through those.

Have a gander in here too - http://www.dialaphone.co.uk/aw2/phone/Apple_iPhone_4_16GB_Black/

I'd go for that if I were you. :)
 
Current contract is 100 minutes and 500 texts on Vodafone and they've been really good although now I just use comfortably more than those alloted numbers.

Really tempted with an iPhone tbh and realistically £10 a month more isn't an awful lot, may just treat myself and invest (what are student loands for anyway? :p).

Thanks a lot for the input guys, anything more would be apprciated as well of course, still got a bit of time to ponder.
 
for Greenlizard, we're just doing it for the first footballing weekend.

As for wanting an iPhone, I guess it's just for the ease of use, ease of app access, the fact my housemate already has a huouge iTunes, and they just seem easy and accessible.

edit: going to bed I'll pick this up in the morning.
 
Last edited:
I guessed as much. In which case don't jump on the iPhone bandwagon just for those reasons as they aren't specific to that one phone. If you haven't already go and actually test out some windows phone and high end android phones and see if they fit the criteria as well.

Also i don't think you can just use someone elses iTunes library and apps fi that's what you meant.
 
If I use purely her iTunes though, not trying to mix and match with mine? Does that not work a la iPods?

Presumably other phones have the same apps etc. which are easily available and accessible?
 
I'm not actually sure about iTunes library sharing. I think you could sync your phone to an iTunes library that has another phone synced to it. I've not really tried. I know if you have the iTunes account login info you can download apps that someone else has paid for onto your iDevice. Again, I'm not 100% sure but someone in the iPad thread asked about it I believe.

With regard to apps, the iPhone is king. Other people may say otherwise but they are wrong! ;) :p
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom